Harriet Lane Handbook

The Harriet Lane Handbook represents over 50 years of expert guidance for pediatric residents and all those who treat children. This irreplaceable manual is your everyday reference for fast, accurate bedside consultation. The book’s trademark formulary will be regularly updated online, to keep you absolutely current. New or revised chapters on palliative care, toxicology, dermatology, and growth and nutrition help you streamline diagnosis and treatment. Still convenient and pocket-sized, this latest edition includes Expert Consult functionality, so you can access the complete contents of the book online, fully searchable.

Key Features

• Remains a convenient, pocket-sized reference, so you can carry a wealth of information with you.
• Includes step-by-step emergency management protocols, growth charts, and more to help you streamline diagnosis and treatment.
• Organized in a modified outline format so you can find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.

New to this Edition

• Provides a regularly updated trademark formulary online to help you get the latest on pediatric drugs and dosages.
• Adds a new palliative care chapter for more well-rounded guidance.
• Includes unprecedented access to the complete contents of the book online, completely searchable, with downloadable images.
• Incorporates the latest treatment and management recommendations, immunization guidelines, procedures, and therapeutic guidelines so you can stay completely up to date.
• Revises the toxicology and the growth and nutrition chapters to be even more user-friendly and practical.
• Reorganizes the dermatology chapter to make information even easier to find.

Table of Contents

Part I. Pediatric Acute Care

1. Emergency Management
2. Poisonings
3. Procedures
4. Trauma/Burns/ICU

Part II. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Information

5. Adolescent Medicine
6. Cardiology
7. Dermatology
8. Behavior and Development
9. Endocrinology
10. Fluids and Electrolytes
11. Gastroenterology
12. Genetics
13. Hematology
14. Immunology and Allergy
15. Immunoprophylaxis
16. Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
17. Neonatology
18. Nephrology
19. Neurology
20. Nutrition and Growth
21. Oncology
22. Pulmonology
23. Radiology
24. Rheumatology

Part III. Reference

25. Blood Chemistries and Body Fluids
26. Biostatistics and Evidence-Based Medicine

Part IV. Formulary

27. Drug Doses
28. Analgesia and Sedation
29. Formulary Adjunct
30. Drugs In Renal Failure